Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Kino Cult have unveiled the details of their March 2025 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as William Holden, Ida Lupino, Sylvester Stallone, Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
PERIL & DISTRESS COLLECTION (ENDLESS NIGHT/PICTURE MOMMY DEAD) (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 3/4/25
Synopsis: This second P&D release includes two more classic and terrifying thrillers. PICTURE MOMMY DEAD (1966) – From cult filmmaker Bert I. Gordon, the director of The Food of the Gods and Empire of the Ants, comes this haunting thriller that will send chills down your spine. After Edward Shelley’s (Don Ameche) wealthy wife (Zsa Zsa Gabor) dies in a mysterious fire, he marries Francene (Martha Hyer), the governess of his daughter Susan (Susan Gordon). Francene is only interested in Edward’s money and wastes no time spending his inheritance. She then turns her attention to Susan—if Susan and Edward were both to die, the rest of the inheritance would go to Anthony (Maxwell Reed), Edward’s cousin and Francene’s former lover. Beautifully shot by Ellsworth Fredericks (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and co-starring Wendell Corey and Signe Hasso. ENDLESS NIGHT (1972) – Based on the terrifying suspense novel by Agatha Christie, the legendary writer of Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express, Endless Night stars Hayley Mills as a wealthy heiress who moves into a magnificent dream house with her new husband (Hywel Bennett). But when murder begins to make itself at home, the stage is set for a stunning climax that even hardcore Christie fans consider one of her darkest and most shocking twists ever. George Sanders, Britt Ekland and Lois Maxwell co-star in this gripping psychological thriller, masterfully adapted and directed by Sidney Gilliat; and featuring a haunting score by the great Bernard Herrmann (North by Northwest, Psycho).
Bonus Features: 2020 UHD SDR Masters by StudioCanal | Audio Commentaries (Both Films) by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer (Endless Night) | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XXIV
UNION STATION/JENNIFER/THE CROOKED CIRCLE
Street Date: 3/4/25
Synopsis: This collection features three thrilling film noir classics. UNION STATION (1950) – In this tense and gritty crime thriller in the tradition of The Naked City, screen great William Holden (Stalag 17) plays a railroad police chief in a race against time, trying to bring down a gang of kidnappers who are holding a blind heiress for a $100,000 ransom with Chicago’s Union Station terminal as the payoff location. The film crackles with melodrama and danger as the police chase the gang leader (Lyle Bettger, No Man of Her Own) from his hideout to the station’s underground tunnel for a bold and gripping climax. Nancy Olson (Sunset Boulevard), Barry Fitzgerald (The Quiet Man) and Jan Sterling (Appointment with Danger) also star in Union Station, directed by noir ace Rudolph Maté (D.O.A.) and adapted by Sydney Boehm (Black Tuesday) from the novel Nightmare in Manhattan by Thomas Walsh. JENNIFER (1953) – Film icon Ida Lupino (Beware, My Lovely) stars as Agnes Langley, who gets a job, through Jim Hollis (Howard Duff, Woman in Hiding), as caretaker of an old and vacated Southern California mansion. The owner’s cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and has mysteriously disappeared. Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and that Jim, with whom she has fallen in love, is responsible. This eerie noir-mystery laced with gothic romance is highlighted by the atmospheric cinematography of James Wong Howe (The Rose Tattoo) and the introduction of the jazz standard “Angel Eyes,” composed and performed by Matt Dennis. THE CROOKED CIRCLE (1957) – In this smashing film noir, young Tommy Kelly (John Smith, Wichita) dives headfirst into the world of prizefighting, much to the chagrin of his ex-boxer brother who is well-aware of the criminal underbelly of the sport. An honest trainer (Robert Armstrong, King Kong) handles the promising Tommy at first, until corrupt forces conspire around him and push him toward betrayal. The young pugilist finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight until he punches back to expose the thuggish crime racket. Directed in widescreen by Republic Pictures’ jack-of-all-trades Joseph Kane (Dakota) and co-starring Fay Spain, Steve Brodie and Don Kelly.
Bonus Features: 2020, 2021 & 2018 HD Masters by Paramount Pictures – From 4K Scans | NEW Audio Commentary for UNION STATION by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode | NEW Audio Commentary for JENNIFER by Film Historians Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio | NEW Audio Commentary for THE CROOKED CIRCLE by Film Historian/Screenwriter Gary Gerani | Theatrical Trailers (Union Station / The Crooked Circle) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/11/25
Synopsis: Brace yourself for earth-shaking action and suspense! Screen legend Sylvester Stallone (Cliffhanger) races against time to lead a group of stranded commuters out of a collapsed tunnel 100 feet below the Hudson River, and safely back into Daylight. When an explosion seals off a commuter tunnel, the survivors are faced with toxic fumes, fires and the impending collapse of the tunnel. Their only hope lies in the hands of Kit Latura (Stallone), a former Emergency Medical Services chief who is haunted by a tragic past. As the walls cave in and the tunnel fills up with water, Latura risks his own life to save others and prevent the disaster from escalating into an even greater catastrophe. Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, and Jay O. Sanders co-star in this thrilling adventure from director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious). Filled with spectacular special effects and heart-pounding intensity, Daylight will have you holding your breath from start to finish, much like how a breathtaking Nature Canvas Wall Art Picture Prints captures your attention with its vivid detail and beauty.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Director Rob Cohen | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Director Rob Cohen | The Making of Daylight (33:28) | EPK Featurette (6:26) | Whenever There Is Love: Music Video by Donna Summer and Bruce Roberts (4:31) | Theatrical Trailers (4:31) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/11/25
Synopsis: 2023 HD Master by StudioCanal – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Nitrate Negative! Cry, the Beloved Country is an extraordinarily moving adaptation of the legendary best-selling novel by Alan Paton. A Black minister, Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee, Body and Soul) lives a quiet life as a parish priest in the back country of South Africa. When his son, Absolom, leaves the small valley where he grew up for the bright lights of the city, he goes missing. After several months of silence, the minister goes to search for him and comes face to face with the squalor and poverty of the Johannesburg slums. Reverend Msimangu (Sidney Poitier in a breakout early performance) is a young clergyman who joins him in his search, but neither are prepared for what they will discover. Directed with grace and sensitivity by Zoltan Korda (Sahara).
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Daniel Kremer | CANADA LEE: An Interview with Mona Z. Smith
Street Date: 3/11/25
Synopsis: If you’re out to build the ultimate Super Tank/Super Weapon, and you find out Dudley Moore (Foul Play, Arthur) has something to do with the missile guidance system, you’ve got to be concerned. Then, when you find out Eddie Murphy (48 Hrs., Beverly Hills Cop) is going to test the tank in an actual combat situation, you ought to forget about it all together. Luckily for us, the government and Dynatechnics Incorporated don’t know Moore and Murphy like we do. And both legendary comics are turned loose on a high-tech, hilarious adventure that sets modern warfare back a couple hundred years. Kate Capshaw (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) co-stars in this madcap military farce from filmmaking duo Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz (Messiah of Evil, Howard the Duck).
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Screenwriter/Producer Alan Spencer and Author/Film Historian Justin Humphreys | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/11/25
Synopsis: In this caper-comedy classic of 1960s British cinema, the great Peter Sellers (The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther) stars as cocky criminal “mastermind” Dodger Lane, who has been concocting the perfect robbery in prison. With two cellmates he intends to break out of jail, steal a fortune in diamonds from a rich Maharajah, and then break back in. He only has a few days left of his sentence to serve and his alibi couldn’t be any tighter. As long as the operation runs smoothly, what could possibly go wrong? Everything—in one of Sellers’ funniest farces packed with a rib-tickling rogues’ gallery of British comedy legends: Lionel Jeffries as the hilariously humiliated prison officer; Wilfrid Hyde-White as a bogus vicar; David Lodge as the meat-headed muscleman; and Bernard Cribbins in the nice young man part. Riotously directed by Robert Day (The Green Man).
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Authors and Comedy Historians Gemma Ross and Robert Ross | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 3/18/25
Synopsis: There’s the right way, the wrong way…and the Army way. But there’s no way military investigator Paul Brenner (John Travolta, Face/Off) is going to participate in a cover-up when Fort MacCallum officials try to hide the motive behind the murder of a beautiful female officer. Travolta’s magnetic performance sparks this riveting thriller from producer Mace Neufeld (The Hunt for Red October), director Simon West (Con Air) and co-writer William Goldman (Marathon Man, All the President’s Men). Madeleine Stowe plays Brenner’s co-investigator and former flame. And James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III and James Woods are among the suspects in this steamy game of cat-and-mouse that will keep you guessing until the explosive finale.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Director Simon West | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Director Simon West | The General’s Daughter – Behind the Secrets: Featurette (19:46) | 4 Deleted Scenes – Including Alternate Ending (10:02) | Theatrical Trailer (2:31) | Theatrical Teaser (1:09) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/18/25
Synopsis: International icons Jean-Paul Belmondo (Le Doulos) and Alain Delon (Un Flic) team up with superstar Vanessa Paradis (Girl on the Bridge) in this slick action-comedy extravaganza from acclaimed filmmaker Patrice Leconte (The Hairdresser’s Husband, Man on the Train). Soon after her mother’s death, the beautiful young car thief Alice (Paradis) is released from prison. All she has left is her mother’s confession that, twenty years before, she had loved two men. One of them is, unknowingly, Alice’s father. On the Côte d’Azur, Alice sets off to track down the two men, the car dealer Léo (Belmondo) and bon-vivant Julien (Delon). But standing in her way are the vicious Russian mobsters from whom she stole a car with $50 million in the trunk. How lucky for Alice that Léo is an ex-Legionnaire and Julien is a master thief. Together, they’ll have Half a Chance (1 chance sur 2) to stay alive as they’re thrown into an epic and uproarious adventure!
Bonus Features: 2K Restoration by TF1 | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in HD) | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/18/25
Synopsis: International idol Alain Delon (Un Flic, The Girl on a Motorcycle) leaps into action in this colorful swashbuckling adventure from the pen of Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers). Who is The Black Tulip? France’s most daring masked avenger—one part Zorro and one part Robin Hood! In 1789 on the eve of the French Revolution, the townspeople of Roussillon live in fear of a tyrannical aristocracy. But a local hero emerges in the form of The Black Tulip (the dashing Delon). The Marquis (Akim Tamiroff, Alphaville), the Prince (Robert Manuel, Rififi) and the Baron try to quell his banditry, but this buccaneer for justice has the support of the revolutionaries and a very clever ace up his sleeve in the form of a twin brother! Stylishly directed by Christian-Jaque (Fanfan la Tulipe) and shot in sumptuous color by Henri Decaë (Joy House), The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire) has it all—comedy, intrigue, sword-swinging action and Delon’s fiery romances with the ravishing Virna Lisi (Queen Margot) and dazzling Dawn Addams (Zeta One)!
Bonus Features: 4K Restoration by TF1 | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | Theatrical Trailer (Low-Res) | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/18/25
Synopsis: The breathlessly charming Jean-Paul Belmondo (Le Doulos, Le Professionnel) stars as François Holin, also known as Ho!, a race car driver who leaves the world of auto racing behind for a life of crime. His skills make him the perfect getaway driver for a gang of bank-robbers. When the leader of the gang is killed, Ho muscles in and tries to take over, igniting his transformation from small-time thug to notorious criminal in the style of Arsène Lupin and Al Capone. Based on the novel by José Giovanni (Classe Tous Risques), this elegantly thrilling gem of European neo-noir was directed by Robert Enrico (The Last Adventure, The Old Gun), shot by Jean Boffety (Dog Day) and scored by François de Roubaix (Le Samouraï). Co-starring Raymond Bussières (Casque d’Or), Paul Crauchet (Un Flic) and the captivating Joanna Shimkus (The Lost Man). Featuring a flash cameo by screen icon Alain Delon (The Black Tulip) as Man in the Airport.
Bonus Features: 4K Restoration by TF1 | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/18/25
Synopsis: It’s like a Kinsey report on the campus! When sociology professor Steve “Mac” McInter (late-night legend Steve Allen) conducts a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the younger generation, some of the town’s citizens are dismayed to learn that it includes questions about…sex! And when reporter Betty Duquesne (Jayne Meadows) receives an anonymous tip in protest of Steve’s “corrupt” study, an attraction grows between them while Mac ends up facing a lawful fight. Bringing together a curious cast including boxer Rocky Marciano, country star Conway Twitty, newspaperman Walter Winchell, character actor Elisha Cook Jr. and beloved bombshell Mamie Van Doren, College Confidential put sex on trial in the year 1960. No film ever dared touch this theme before! From Albert Zugsmith, producer of Touch of Evil and director of Sex Kittens Go to College, and featuring snappy musical numbers like “College Confidential Ball” and “Playmates.”
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Film Historian/Archivist Stan Shaffer | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 3/25/25
Synopsis: Meet Mike Donnelly (Chris Farley). He’s one lovable, hilarious accident waiting to happen. Dedicated to helping his big brother Al (Tim Matheson) win the race for Washington State governor, he turns every opportunity for votes into an embarrassing disaster. Campaign aide and super-slacker Steve Dodds (David Spade) volunteers to baby-sit Mike. Big mistake! When Mike discovers that the incumbent governor is a crook, he dives headfirst into a whole new level of well-intended destruction. Chris Farley and David Spade, the stars of Tommy Boy, once again show why they were the reigning comedy duo of the ’90s! Directed by Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World) and co-starring Gary Busey, Black Sheep is a raucous crowd-pleaser bubbling over with maximum energy! Featuring an electrifying performance by super Seattle band Mudhoney!
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Director Penelope Spheeris, Moderated by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Director Penelope Spheeris, Moderated by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/25/25
Synopsis: An exquisitely enigmatic Jeanne Moreau (The Bride Wore Black) is the chambermaid Célestine, who takes a position with a decadent family on a pre-WWII Normandy estate and finds herself in the middle of a hotbed of hypocrisy and perversion. The old man has a foot fetish, his daughter is a frigid hysteric, her husband a dissolute rake, the gamekeeper a racist and sadist, while the fascist neighbor compulsively throws his garbage on their property. When a child is raped and murdered, Célestine becomes obsessed with discovering and exposing the killer, even though she finds herself attracted to him. Adapted from the Octave Mirbeau novel by cinema’s grand surrealist and satirist of the bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel (Belle de Jour), Diary of a Chambermaid exerts a hypnotic fascination with the erotic while striking out against human hypocrisy and moral decay. Co-starring Michel Piccoli (Max and the Junkmen) and co-scripted by Buñuel’s frequent cohort, Jean-Claude Carrière (The Milky Way).
Bonus Features: 2K Restoration by StudioCanal | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith | An Angel in the Marshes: Featurette – In French with English Subtitles (27:06) | Interview with Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière – In English (24:41) | Q&A with Jean-Claude Carrière – In English (51:52) | Theatrical Trailer | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/25/25
Synopsis: It is the 21st Century, and society’s lust for violence is satisfied by “The Big Hunt,” an international game of legalized murder. Players are selected at random by a computer and it is up to the “Hunter” to get his “Victim”—no matter what—and to do him in. The divine Ursula Andress (Dr. No), doing in her last victim with a cleverly concealed pair of pistols in her bra at a New York nightclub; and the dashing Marcello Mastroianni (8½), doing in his last victim by attaching sticks of dynamite to the spurs of his victim, a rider in a horse show, have been matched up against each other by the computer. These adversaries are to confront each other in the arena of the coliseum before the world’s television cameras for the kill of the century…but they find that love is the most dangerous game of all! Directed by Elio Petri (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) and co-starring Elsa Martinelli (Hatari!), The 10th Victim is the murderously groovy ’60s cult classic whose wild action and sexy style has influenced a generation of movies, from The Running Man to Austin Powers!
Bonus Features: 2K Restoration | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Troy Howarth | Elio Petri – Subject for Further Research: Featurette by Roberta Licurgo with Paola Pegoraro Petri (Wife of Elio Petri) and Author/Film Historian Kim Newman | Theatrical Trailers (Italian & English) | Includes Both Italian and English Audio | Optional English Subtites
Street Date: 3/25/25
Synopsis: Gorgeously remastered for the very first time in 3-D by 3-D Film Archive! Film noir legend Edward G. Robinson (Scarlet Street, Night Has a Thousand Eyes) spins The Glass Web—the ultimate in shocking 3-D suspense! Television writer Don (John Forsythe, In Cold Blood) has been having an affair with ice-cold actress Paula (Kathleen Hughes, Three Bad Sisters) while working on the weekly authentic TV show Crime of the Week. When Paula demands a ransom to keep the affair from Don’s wife (Marcia Henderson, All I Desire), he agrees. However, as he arrives to deliver the money, he finds Paula dead. Soon, the show’s researcher, Henry (Robinson), proposes that their next episode should reenact Paula’s murder…and that he has incriminating evidence against Don. This twist-filled noir classic was filmed in three glorious dimensions by legendary director Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Tattered Dress).
Bonus Features: 3-D Restoration by 3-D Film Archive | NEW Audio Commentary by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney, with 3-D Experts Mike Ballew and Greg Kintz | Includes the 2D, Blu-ray 3-D AND Anaglyphic (Red/Cyan) 3-D Versions with One Pair of Anaglyphic 3-D Glasses | Theatrical Trailer (2D) | TV Spots (2D) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/25/25
Synopsis: Dark roads, a stormy night and Jean Gabin are the primary ingredients in Hi-Jack Highway, aka Gas-Oil, a French noir gem. Gabin (Razzia Sur La Chnouf) cements his status as one of the pillars of French cinema with a moody and moving performance. And it gives Jeanne Moreau (Touchez Pas Au Grisbi), one of France’s greatest actresses, one of her first great roles. After spending the night with his girlfriend Alice (Moreau), trucker Jean (Gabin) encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police but they suspect that Jean is responsible for the death. And then there’s that nasty gang of crooks who also are harassing him. Jean is a victim of circumstance and forces beyond his control are closing in on him. But with Alice as his emotional base, he aims to rouse his trucker friends and turn the tables on the forces against him, in this dark and gripping drama co-written by Michel Audiard (Deadly Circuit) and directed by Gilles Grangier (Speaking of Murder).
Bonus Features: 4K Restoration by TF1 | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | Theatrical Trailer | In French with Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/18/25
Synopsis: Family horror in the vein of The Shining, Burnt Offerings, and The Omen, The Godsend penetrates and exploits the viewer’s most primal domestic fears. A young couple shelters a pregnant woman traveling through the English countryside. When morning comes, she leaves behind her newborn child, Bonnie. The Marlows make room in their family for the foundling. But as time passes, a series of tragedies befall the other children…and the Marlows begin to wonder if a monstrous bad seed is taking root in their home. Is ethereal Bonnie a gift from God, or could she instead be the devil’s spawn? The Godsend is the only theatrical film by ground-breaking TV director Gabrielle Beaumont (Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story), and remains one of the most unsettling supernatural thrillers of the early 1980s.
Bonus Features: New audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell, and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 3/25/25
Synopsis: The stunning physical charm of Lynda Carter (TV’s Wonder Woman) was first fully exposed to filmgoers in this rousing adventure of two young lovers whose fantasies leads them to danger. Bobbie Jo (Carter) is a shapely drive-in waitress who imagines herself a country star; Lyle Wheeler (Marjoe Gortner, When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder?) is a quick-draw expert who fancies himself a modern day Billy the Kid. Together, they’re Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw – a pair of modern bandits to ever streak across the west, in this fast paced crime drama directed by cult filmmaker Mark L. Lester (Class of 1984, Commando). The sterling cast includes Jesse Vint (Silent Running), Belinda Balaski (The Howling), Peggy Stewart (Son of Zorro), Gerrit Graham (Used Cars) and James Gammon (Major League).
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by John Harrison, Author of Wildcat! The Films of Marjoe Gortner | Audio Commentary by Director Mark L. Lester Interview with Director Mark L. Lester (11:55) | Interview with Actress Merrie Lynn Ross (16:34) | Interview with Actress Belinda Balaski (11:20) | Theatrical Trailer (1:51) | Drive-In Radio Spot
Street Date: 3/11/25 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: For the past two decades, Paris-born filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg have created documentaries that capture the essence of filmmakers and performers whose work define their times, and who have come to inspire generations of aspiring artists. In this four-film collection, the sibling filmmakers focus on those boundary-breaking women who, by force of enormous talent and sheer determination, broke the glass ceiling and established themselves as influential filmmakers within the male-dominated film industry. The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016) pays homage to the first generation of women screenwriters and directors, who were integral to the evolution of cinema, both as a language and as an industry. Mary Pickford, a Blessing and a Curse (2023) profiles the silent-era superstar who leveraged her popularity as an actress to become her own producer, and eventually was one of the founders of United Artists. Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (2023) examines the uncompromising life and work of essentially the only woman working as a director in the 1930s studio system. Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino (2021) observes the actress with a penchant for film noir, who fearlessly confronted such taboo topics as unwed motherhood, sexual assault, and bigamy.
Bonus Features: Filmed introduction by filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg | Theatrical trailers